ALBANY - Bennett Liebman, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's secretary for racing and gaming, has been identified as the state official whose July 19 email complaint to the New York Racing Association resulted in the Wandering Dago lunch truck being bounced from the Saratoga Race Course the next morning.

Liebman's email to NYRA President Christopher Kay was introduced Thursday morning during oral arguments in a lawsuit brought by the controversially named fusion barbecue truck's owners against NYRA and the state Office of General Services, which in May denied the truck's application to sell its food on the Empire State Plaza, citing its name among the reasons for the rejection.

Although Liebman's name wasn't mentioned during the court proceedings before U.S. District Judge Mae D'Agostino, Wandering Dago attorney George Carpinello provided its text to reporters outside U.S. District Court.

The email read: "I'm sure that the name of this particular food truck at the track is designed to be self-deprecating, but there's a food truck at the track from Schenectady known as the Wandering Dago.

"I just believe that people will find the name of the truck both offensive and insensitive, and that the fallout for authorizing this truck will inevitably land on NYRA.

"Is there any way to at least modify the name of this particular truck? I see this as a problem waiting to blow up."